Google Open-Sources Its TensorFlow Machine Learning Tech

The second-generation deep learning system can be adapted to new products and apps, and run on anything from smartphones to data center systems. Google has decided to release to the open-source community the machine learning system at the core of many of its services, including Google Translate, Smart Reply in Inbox and image search in Google Photos.Google’s second-generation machine learning technology, dubbed TensorFlow, is designed to run on everything from a single smartphone to thousands of data center systems, CEO Sundar Pichai said in a Nov. 9 blog post. TensorFlow is a faster, smarter version of Google’s first-generation machine learning technology and allows the company to build and train neural nets at five times the speed than what was possible previously, Pichai said. The technology is also flexible enough to be…